Sunday, December 14, 2025

Viral meningitis outbreak receding in Georgia

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Also at Kutaisi hospital, the number of cases is falling. 63 people were infected in Georgia’s second largest city. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–About 200 viral meningitis patients out of 400 have left hospital, according to Georgia’s Health Minister, Davit Sergeenko.

He says the number of cases of viral meningitis has gone down in the large cities, after the outbreak peaked on May 23.

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Details published about Saakashvili's travel expenses

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Publicity photo of former President Mikheil Saakashvili published on the eve of his leaving office in November, 2013.

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili spent GEL 1,533,222 (USD 866,000) of public money on official visits during his last year in office.

According to the report published by Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI)

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Youth Parliament – learning to put words into action

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Teona Lavrelashvili, founder of Georgian Youth Parliament.

TBILISI, DFWatch–In Georgia, a group of young students have created their own parliament. It has 100 MPs and prepares real draft laws which are sent to the real parliament.

A few weeks ago, this youth parliament held its 2014 opening session in the parliament

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A lost Georgian letter & Europe’s idealist deficit

Tedo Japaridze is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Parliament of Georgia.
Tedo Japaridze is Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations in the Parliament of Georgia.

Recently, I made a discovery of the kind that spices up historians’ books. In my archive, I discovered a draft of a letter by Zviad Gamsakhurdia, the first Georgian President, directed to Secretary James Baker. The date was 1991. These were devastating but hopeful

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Search for bodies continuing after May 17 landslide

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The mud from the May 17 landslide in Dariali clogged the river Tergi and may have killed up to seven people.

TBILISI, DFWatch–Nearly two weeks after a catastrophic landslide hit Dariali Valley in the Caucasus mountains, the search is continuing for four people who are still missing. Three have been found dead.

The Road Department in Georgia is working in two shifts to clean

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Saakashvili ideologue to be adviser for new Ukraine president

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Kakha Bendukidze, a former economy minister for Saakashvili, will be adviser for Petro Poroshenko’s new economy council. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili is not to advise the new Ukrainian government, but his economy minister, Kakha Bendukidze, confirms that he has been appointed as an adviser to Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko.

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Large street fight in eastern Georgian town

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The clashes involved some 200 people of Azerbaijani and Georgian ethnic origin. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Wednesday night there was a street fight in a town south east in Georgia involving hundreds of youth.

The fight took place in Gardabani, a town with a mixed Azerbaijani and Georgian population.

Claims vary about what started the scuffle. Some

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Merkel meets premiers of Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova

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Georgian PM Irakli Gharibashvili (left), German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and Ukraine’s PM Arseniy Yatseniuk. (Official photo.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The prime ministers of Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine on Wednesday met with Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel in Germany.

“We would like people to know that which road to choose, and our meeting today is held exactly for this [purpose],”

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